Announcing support for PHP 7.0 in Azure App Service and notice of PHP 5.4 retirement
Starting today, you will see PHP 7.0 (7.0.5 at time of writing) available as an option in the portal.
Announcing the Availability of PHP 7 RC7 x86 (Experimental) on Azure Web App
The support for PHP7 is provided as an experimental feature, and is considered unsupported at a Platform level, as PHP7 is still currently in a release candidate state.